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Sun May 25, 2008 at 09:45:00 AM EDT
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When the United States Supreme Court invalidated all state sodomy laws in the landmark 2003 Lawrence v. Texas ruling it didn't take those state laws off the books. Last night in my state, two men, in what appears to be a domestic dispute/sexual assault case that occurred in private, were charged by the police under the North Carolina's ridiculous "crimes against nature" law (CAN). From the Raleigh N&O:Raleigh police first charged Nelson Keith Sloan, 40, of Grand Manor Court, who called them to his apartment about dawn, saying he had been attacked.
Police later filed the same charge against Ryan Christopher Flynn, 25, of Glen Currin Drive. They also charged Flynn with simple assault for biting Sloan. And they charged him with communicating threats by telling Sloan he was going to disembowel him and show him his innards.
"This looks like a case of a consensual act that may have gotten out of hand," said Raleigh police Capt. T.D. Hardy. "The law is still on the books. Our detectives got involved in it last night and decided this was the best thing to do. What the D.A.'s office will do with it, I don't know."
Sloan, however, said he was the victim of an assault. "I didn't allow anything," he said Saturday after being reached at home by phone. "They knew it and turned it around and arrested me. I have never been so humiliated in all my life. It's just awful." And, in the ultimate outrage - the police did not charge Flynn with sexual assault. As you read, the police captain 1) doesn't believe a sexual crime occurred; and 2) doesn't have a problem with arresting the men under this law, when everyone knows a heterosexual couple would never be charged with CAN.
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| Pam Spaulding :: NC outrage: two men charged with sodomy - even after Lawrence v. Texas |
What exactly is this law?Offenses against Public Morality and Decency.
§ 14-177. Crime against nature.
If any person shall commit the crime against nature, with mankind or beast, he shall be punished as a Class I felon. The penalty is up to 3 years in prison. These cases almost never make it to trial, but the point is time and money are wasted as a result of these charges, and in this case, lets an actual crime -- sexual assault -- go unpunished. The North Carolina Gay Advocacy Legal Alliance (NCGALA) further statesIn order to convict someone of CAN, prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that an act of penetration occurred (that is, the state must prove that a penis was inserted into someone's mouth or anus, or that a tongue was inserted into someone's vagina or anus). Sane legislators have been trying to get this law wiped off of the books for years, but the fundies have deep-sixed any efforts to do this.State Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, a Carrboro Democrat and attorney, has tried for years to rescind the state statute, but the General Assembly hasn't been willing to do it.
"I press it every year," she said Saturday. "It would be politically difficult, but that doesn't matter -- it's unconstitutional." Kinnaird's effort to repeal CAN was railed on by the Right back in 2001 as a measure that would "amount to promotion of the homosexual lifestyle."
So, while we celebrate the achievement of California's Supreme Court ruling that gay couples may marry, down here in NC, where that possibility is nowhere on the horizon, we're at the mercy of biased law enforcement officials too lazy to actually correctly assess and charge criminal activity by using an unconstitutional law to persecute a sexual minority.
More in this DKos diary, Q-Notes, and over at BlueNC.
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